AN artistic but misunderstood schoolboy falls for a hot classmate in this teen drama.

Yes, it’s another one of those films. But unlike The Art Of Getting By, It’s Kind Of A Funny Story and Thumbsucker, this time the hero (played by Logan Lerman) is less slappable.

The lad in question is Charlie who, after a mysterious childhood trauma, makes new friends at a high school in the shape of the camp-as-Christmas Patrick (Ezra Miller) and his elfin stepsister Sam (Emma Watson).

While it deals in the usual angsty teen flick stereotypes – there’s a cool English teacher played by Paul Rudd who gets Charlie, and then there’s Sam, who has a thing for standing on the back of a speeding truck with David Bowie on full blast – it’s an honest look at the horrors of being an adolescent.